On Wednesday, The Big Ten officially announced updates to the upcoming 2022 football schedule. In an effort to remediate some of the discrepancies the 2020 season left behind, several teams received a combination of changed locations, changed dates, and in the cases of Penn State, Illinois, Northwestern, and Indiana, changed opponents.
The biggest change for the Nittany Lions comes in the addition of Northwestern to the schedule, which replaces Illinois. The Illini played in State College the past two seasons, and were they to remain on the schedule, they would have played Penn State on the road for three consecutive seasons.